Clamping and pivot-supporting device



No. 606,866. Patented July 5, I898.

T. s. HEINEKEN CLAMPING AND PIVOT SUPPORTING DEVICE.

(Application filed May 11, 189?.)

(Np Model.)

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v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE S. HEINEKEN, OF BURLINGTON, NEW' JERSEY.

CLAMPING AND PIVOT-SUPPORTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,866, dated July 5, 1898.

Application filed May 11, 1897. Serial No. 636,043. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that LTHEODORE S. HEINEKEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, inthe county of Burlington and State of'New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clamping and Pivot-Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to an adjustable and detachable clamping and pivot-supporting device for washbasins and other utensils, and in such connection it relates to the particular construction and arrangement of the same for such purposes. I

The nature, objects, and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clamping device embodying features of my invention in application to a washbasin. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view,detached, of a slightlylnodified form of the clamping device, showing the two adjustable clamping-jaws of the device and the pintle for pivotally supporting a utensil therefrom; and Fig. 3 is a similar View of one of the members of the device, showing the pintle formed integral therewith.

Referring to the drawings, A in Fig. 1 is the clamping device of my invention, cons'isting of two fiat-faced and contracted jaws a and a, with respectively a pintle b. .In each jaw in the contracted portion is formed an opening a through which is inserted a headed bolt a partially threaded to receive and re tain a nut a for example, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

It will be observed by reference to Fig. 3 that the inner portion of each of the jaws a and a of the device A is grooved out in order to bite securely to the utensil to which applied and when the two members or jaws are bolted together in application to a washbasin C, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the pintle b of the device is engaged by a retaining fork or hoop D in order that the basin may be tilted, turned, or swung on the pintle of said clamping device applied to each side or surface of the washbasin O'within the hoop D, for example, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In Fig. 2 the clamping device differs from the one illustrated in Fig. 1 in that the pintle Z) is formed integral with the upper jaw of the device, while in Fig. 1 each jaw is provided with half or a portion of the pintle Z).

The jaws a and a of the device A are made of the shape or form clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2-that is, in which the portion of each that embraces the appliance is broader or wider than where the bolt is extended through the two for adj ustably and detachably securing them together and adjacent to the formation of the split pintle of Fig. 1 or solid pintle of Figs. 2 and 3, whereby a more firm or secure hold upon the appliance is attained and a better action of the pintles in connection with the spanning hoop or fork for tilting or turning, for instance, the thus-supported basin is insured, as illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a clamping and pivot-supporting device for washbasins, the combination of two separable internally-grooved fiat-faced and contracted jaws a. and a,,having a pintle b, a vertical bolt extending through the contracted portion of said jaws and a nut for adj ustably securing said jaws to the rim of the washbasin C, and a hoop D, to which said pintle is detachably connected to permit of said basin swinging within said hoop, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v THEODORE S. HEINEKEN. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS,

THOMAS M. SMITH. 

